{"product_id":"descartes-meditative-turn-cartesian-thought-as-spiritual-practice-hardback-9781503638280","title":"Descartes' Meditative Turn; Cartesian Thought As Spiritual Practice (Hardback) 9781503638280","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDescartes' Meditative Turn\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eCartesian Thought As Spiritual Practice\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eChristopher J. Wild (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503638280\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 19 March 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e352 pages, 11 halftones\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.573 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This is a groundbreaking, dazzling, thought-provoking work that proposes a completely new reading of a—if not \u003ci\u003ethe\u003c\/i\u003e—foundational text of modern Western philosophy. I cannot remember the last time a book so profoundly transformed my understanding of a canonical text.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Hall Bjørnstad, Indiana University Bloomington \"This brilliant book examines the self-reflexive 'meditative matrix' cultivated by Descartes as a proving ground for the emergence of the \u003ci\u003ecogito\u003c\/i\u003e and the discovery of the 'marvelous science.' Wild draws attention to crucial but understudied features of the Cartesian philosophy.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Walter Melion, Emory University \"Wild's \u003ci\u003eDescartes' Meditative Turn\u003c\/i\u003e is certain to prompt its own readers to turn once more to Descartes' \u003ci\u003eMeditations\u003c\/i\u003e. This wide-ranging intellectual history reveals afresh the depth of influence and ingenuity subtending Descartes' encounters with the genre and practice of meditation.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Andrea Gadberry, New York University \"Wild's approach yields new interpretations of Descartes's understanding of the nature of evidence, his proofs for the existence of God, and even the example of the ball of wax.... Highly recommended.\"—C. D. Kay, \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy would René Descartes, the father of modern rationalist philosophy, choose \"meditations\"—a term and genre associated with religious discourse and practice—for the title of his magnum opus that lays the metaphysical foundations for his reform of all knowledge, including mathematics and sciences? Why did he believe that the immortality of the soul and the existence of God, which the \u003ci\u003eMeditations on First Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e set out to demonstrate, can only be made self-evident through meditating? These are the question that Christopher Wild's book answers. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDescartes discovered the \"foundations of a marvelous science\" through a dramatic conversion in southern Germany in the winter of 1619. The spiritual and cognitive exercises, derived from ancient philosophy and the Christian meditative tradition, which Descartes deployed in the \u003ci\u003eMeditations\u003c\/i\u003e, enable readers to discover metaphysical truths with the same degree of self-evidence with which Descartes did during his own conversion. Descartes' meditative turn, Wild argues, brings to a culmination a lifelong preoccupation with the practice or craft of thinking, known as Cartesian method. By joining meditation to method the \u003ci\u003eMeditations\u003c\/i\u003e becomes the founding document for a Cartesian \"art of turning,\" a new practice of both thought and life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: Descartes' Meditative Turn and the Tradition of Spiritual Exercises\u003cbr\u003e  1. Founding First Philosophies: Descartes' Conversion\u003cbr\u003e  2. Method and Meditation: The Cartesian Art of Turning\u003cbr\u003e  3. The Discernment of Ideas and the Evidence of the Cogito\u003cbr\u003e  4. Cartesian Ceroplastics: Meditating the Mediality of the Mind\u003cbr\u003e  5. Adversio, Animadversio, and Attentio: Turning toward God\u003cbr\u003e  6. \"\u003cbr\u003eTo Gaze with Wonder and Adoration\"\u003cbr\u003e: Contemplatio Dei and Meditative Ascent\u003cbr\u003e  Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e  Notes\u003cbr\u003e  Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e  Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52610708668696,"sku":"9781503638280","price":103.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/descartes-meditative-turn-cartesian-thought-as-spiritual-practice-hardback-9781503638280","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}